Creatives will have their own private townhouse, as well as access to an infinity pool, a private chef, gym and spa. In addition to a modest stipend for supplies, they’ll also receive funding to explore Senegal and learn the local language

Wiley first visited Senegal when he was 19 years old, as he was visiting Nigeria in search of his estranged birth father. He returned in 2008. “I was invited there years ago and fell in love with the small simplicity of it, its coastal feel,” he says. “It has more of a manageable bite-sized quality to it. It’s my first stab at doing something in West Africa. It’s almost a training ground.”